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THE MONTHLY SEARCH
FOR TRUTH IN NEWS

Signs
of The Times News Round Up

August 2005

TERROR IN
LONDON

Continued fallout and revelations from last month’s
London bombings include Blair’s introduction of new strictures
on the freedoms of British citizens (and proposals for even more), a
rise in general anti-Muslim sentiment, and suggestions of coverup regarding
both the bombings and the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes by police.

Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites
are wiped outOver the
past fortnight Israeli intelligence agents have noticed something distinctly
odd happening on the internet. One by one, Al-Qaeda's affiliated websites
have vanished until only a handful remain, write Uzi Mahnaimi and Alex
Pell. Someone has cut the line of communication between the spiritual
leaders of international terrorism and their supporters. Since 9/11 the
websites have been the main links to disseminate propaganda and information.
The Israelis detect the hand of British intelligence, determined to torpedo
the websites after the
London
attacks of July 7. The web has become the new battleground of terrorism,
permitting a freedom of communication denied to such organisations
as the IRA a couple of decades ago.

Muslims who hate us can get out, says Tory"Gerald
Howarth, the shadow defence minister, last night told The Scotsman that
extremist Muslims who see the
Iraq
war as a conflict against Islam should be considered as treacherous
as Soviet sympathisers during the Cold War."

“The
London bomb attacks emphasized the huge disconnect between the views
of the average person and the views of the Anglo-American-Zionist extremists,
exemplified in the person of Tony Blair, whose denials of the obvious
connections between terrorism and actions of the British state have
made him appear to be insane.”

“Former
Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who quit government over the
Iraq
war … died on Saturday evening…Robin
Cook had quit as Commons leader in March 2003, in protest over the war
in
Iraq
. He had been
one of the most outspoken and prominent critics of Blair's stance on
Iraq.”

"I
am utterly against the punishing of innocent people for the crimes
of the guilty, whether it is done on the underground of London or the
streets of Falluja by George Bush's air force…Blair has decided that he
has the right to unilaterally make law from his perch at
10 Downing St.
without the consent of Parliament. The fatuous PM now claims the power
to close down mosques, deport, clerics and shut down web sites where
the views don't meet the dubious standards of the state. Additionally,
Israeli trained police-units have been deployed on
London
's streets with orders to "shoot to kill" terror suspects
(or fleeing Brazilians) if there is a perceived risk to public safety."

“Britain
said on Friday as part of an anti-terrorism drive it may reform lawsto
force judges to give equal weight to national security as well as human
rights…Lawyer
Gareth Peirce, who represents seven of those held, said Blair's
plans were ‘insane and dangerous government at its worst.’”

The “accidental”shooting death by police of a Brazilian
commuter in
London
.“The
papers, from the probe into Jean Charles de Menezes' death, and leaked
to ITV, suggest he was restrained before being shot eight times.”

“None of the cameras at the scene of the
shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station on 22
July were working, a police document revealed…However in a statement to The Mail on Sunday, Tube Lines said: "We are not aware of any faults on CCTV cameras
at that station on that day…”I’m reminded
of footage I’ve seen of police brutally beating suspects with
excessive force while one or more other officers attempts to obscure
the view of the camera.“Clare
Short, the former Cabinet Minister, said it was now clear that the
public had been misled over the death of Mr de Menezes. She told ITV
News: ‘We've been lied to. This should be bigger than just calling
for Sir Ian Blair to go. We need to find out exactly what happened.
Who was telling the lies?’…If the cameras had failed, why did the station
log book contain no details of the fault?”

“The
Port
of
Southern Louisiana
is the fifth-largest port in the world in terms of tonnage, and the largest
port in the
United States
. The only global ports larger are
Singapore
,
Rotterdam
,
Shanghai
and
Hong Kong
…If the damage to
the river and port facilities could not be repaired within 30 days when the
U.S.
harvests are at their peak, the effect on global agricultural prices could
be substantial…About
2 percent of world crude production and roughly 25 percent of U.S.-produced
crude comes from the
Gulf of Mexico
and already is affected by Katrina.”

If you’ve never heard that the current wars were planned,
years before they began, by the U.S. administration for purely political,
self-serving reasons, please read the document, signed by many in
the current government, “Project For
A New American Century (PNAC) – Rebuilding America’s
Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century, September
2000.”Meanwhile, the media won’t cover attempts to find
out the truth about Americans were led to these war by deception,
downplays the hell that Iraq has been descending into, takes the
military’s word for everything without investigation, doesn’t
investigate the true number of Americans dead/wounded/AWOL, doesn’t
mention or count the staggering number of Iraqi dead, doesn’t
reveal the extent or the make-up of the resistance to the occupation,

”…the
dismissed Army General, the planned Terror Drill, Bush's plummeting
approval ratings and the administration's overall lack of interest
in even the most basic public policy initiatives… Some event
of great proportions is about to transpire. Though inductively, my
argument may be weak, we've all seen the same patterns. Perhaps it
was an unintended conditioning effect but I'd like to believe it lies
closer to intuition…It
sounds easy enough to piece together. Yet another "false-flag" attack
to trick the nation into another war… given the current
administration's lack of support for the floundering war in Iraq, how
else would they be able to connive the American people into yet another
costly, deadly, and devestating war?”

“July
was the bloodiest month in Baghdad's modern history - in all,
1,100 bodies were brought to the city's mortuary; executed for the
most part, eviscerated, stabbed, bludgeoned, tortured to death. The
figure is secret.We are not supposed to know that the
Iraqi capital's death toll last month was only 700 short of the total
American fatalities in
Iraq
since April of 2003. Of the dead, 963 were men
- many with their hands bound, their eyes taped and bullets in their
heads - and 137 women. The statistics are as shameful as they are horrifying.
For these are the men and women we supposedly came to "liberate" -
and about whose fate we do not care…No
Western official, no Iraqi government minister, no civil servant, no
press release from the authorities, no newspaper, mentioned this terrible
statistic.The dead of
Iraq
- as they have from the beginning of our illegal invasion - were
simply written out of the script. Officially they do not exist…While Saddam's
regime visited death by official execution upon its opponents,
the scale of anarchy now existing in Baghdad, Mosul, Basra and
other cities is unprecedented.”

“Doctors
for Iraqi is calling for an independent investigation into the serious
breaches of the Geneva Convention, the alleged killing of civilians
and obstructing medical personal…The
military operations in the West of Iraq have left the healthcare system
paralysed. Hospitals in the area are unable to provide sufficient medical
services for the population. The new military attacks are further compounding
the suffering of people in the area….”

"Some 637 deaths have been accounted for and 238 wounded
according to information obtained from five hospitals," a security
official told AFP, while a hospital official said 20 people had died
of poisoning.The stampede
occurred shortly after the Kadhimiya shrine had come under mortar fire,
which left at least seven people dead and dozens wounded…”

“The
rule of law is no longer operating in
Iraq
, and no pretence of constitutional procedure is being striven for. In
essence, the prime minister and president have made a sort of coup, simply
disregarding the interim constitution. Given the acquiescence of parliament
and the absence of a supreme court (which should have been appointed
by now but was not, also unconstitutionally), there is no check or balance
that could question the writ of the executive…”

“No
amount of crowing over a fig leaf Iraqi constitution by President
Bush can hide the fact that the region's autocrats, theocrats and
terrorists are stronger than ever. Who lost
Iraq
?”

President Makes It Clear: Phrase Is 'War on Terror'"President
Bush publicly overruled some of his top advisers on Wednesday in a debate
about what to call the conflict with Islamic extremists, saying, "Make
no mistake about it, we are at war." In a speech here, Mr. Bush
used the phrase "war on terror" no less than five times. Not
once did he refer to the "global struggle against violent extremism," the
wording consciously adopted by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and
others..."

"An immediate withdrawal of our troops in
Iraq
or the broader Middle East, as some have called for, would only embolden
the terrorists and create a staging ground to launch more attacks against
America
and free nations…"Since when did
terrorists get a whole country?

“George Bush and his political advisors have been successful in
presenting a false image to the American people that Saddam Hussein
was an
"imminent" threat to the security of the
United States
…Donald Rumsfeld
said, ‘We know where the weapons are.’After 9/11, comments
like this proved to be a successful scare tactic to use on the American People
to rally support for the invasion…I
participated in the invasion, stayed in Iraq for a year afterward, and what
I witnessed was the total opposite of what President Bush and his Administration
stated to the American People…the bulk of the insurgency
I faced was primarily the people of Iraq who were attacking us as a reaction
to what they felt was an occupation of their country…As a soldier
who fought in that war, I feel misled. I feel that I was sent off to fight
for a cause that never existed.”

“Terry
Rodgers Came Back From
Iraq
a Changed Man, and Not Just Because of the Bomb…One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet
President Bush, who was visiting the hospital.Rodgers
declined."I don't
want anything to do with him," he explains. "My belief
is that his ego is getting people killed and mutilated for no reason
-- just his ego and his reputation. If we really wanted to, we could
pull out of Iraq. Maybe not completely but enough that we wouldn't
be losing people -- at least not at this rate. So I think he himself
is responsible for quite a few American deaths."

“Actual death toll of US Military in Iraq
is in excess of 8,000, "far more realistic than the government's
current official number of 1,800-plus," according to 'Deep Throat'
data researcher Brian Harring….‘Bush
has never attended any kind of a memorial service for his dead soldiers,’ states
Harring.
‘He never will because he is terrified some parent might curse him in
front of the press, or, worse, attack him.’”

“The
survey by Newsweek magazine indicated only 34 percent of Americans
approved of the way Bush was handling the situation in
Iraq
while 61 percent expressed their disapproval.The
findings, made public Saturday, represented the president's lowest rating
on
Iraq
ever…”

“In
a memorandum dated Feb. 7, 2003 - one month before the beginning of
the Iraq war - State Department officials also wrote that ‘a
failure to address short-term public security and humanitarian assistance
concerns could result in serious human rights abuses which would undermine
an otherwise successful military campaign, and our reputation internationally.’”

Retired four-star
Army General Barry McCaffrey to Time Magazine: ‘The Army's wheels are going
to come off in the next 24 months. We are now in a period of considerable
strategic peril. It's because Rumsfeld has dug in his heels and
said, I cannot retreat from my position.’”

“Responding to the need to manage a rising number of detainees in
Iraq
, the Pentagon announced Wednesday that it will send an additional 700
troops to that country… ‘The basic fact driving this
deployment is the steady rise of the prison population,’ he said.The
number of prisoners held in
US
military detention centers in
Iraq
has more than doubled since the autumn, climbing from 5,400 in September
to more than 10,800 now, according to the latest Pentagon figures.”

“She
has asked many questions: Why is Halliburton - a giant
Texas
firm that holds more than 50 percent of all rebuilding efforts in
Iraq
- getting billions in contracts without competitive bidding? Do the durations
of those contracts make sense? Have there been violations of federal
laws regulating how the government can spend its money? … Now
Bunny Greenhouse may lose her job - and her reputation, which she spent
a lifetime building...‘They want me out,’ Greenhouse
said.”

“The criminals in charge don't give a damn about democracy. They
want CONTROL. Just like they did in
Vietnam
…You'll remember that ‘support the
troops’
was code for ‘support the war’, then as now, though the preferred
hawk bumper sticker was ‘
America
, Love It, or Leave It’.”

New US black operations unit said to have arrived in Baghdad"Quds Press
reported that it had learned from "exclusive sources" that a special
American detachment had arrived in the country about a week ago with the task
of carrying out "dirty operations" that could be blamed on the Iraqi
Resistance in an effort to try to erode mass support for the independence movement.
The sources said that the American unit, dubbed "gnawing rats," was
to carry out assassinations, sabotage of government installations and random
bombings, all of which could be blamed on the Iraqi Resistance."

Fising the War on Terror"Once
upon a time, a dangerous radical gained control of the US Republican
Party... The American Right, having created the Mujahideen and having
mightily contributed to the creation of al-Qaeda, abruptly announced
that there was something deeply wrong with Islam, that it kept producing
terrorists."

World police chiefs: Shoot suicide bombers in the head
"An international organization representing the heads of police departments
across the world has issued new guidelines recommending that officers who confront
a suicide bomber should shoot the suspect in the head, the Washington Post
reported."

“The
Israeli Mossad agent Zev Barkan has been running Asian criminal gangs
used to obtain Australian Identity documents and other passports stolen
from Australians Killed in Asia, a
New Zealand
security official has said…A
New Zealand
security official says his services have uncovered an Israeli operation
to create al-Qaeda cells in
Thailand
. The security official in
Thailand
said Israeli terrorist are posing as operatives of al-Qaeda.”

”When
Thomas Dewey was running for president against Roosevelt in 1944 he
found out about America’s ability to intercept Japan’s
radio messages, and thought this knowledge would enable him to defeat
the popular FDR. In the fall of that year, Dewey
planned a series of speeches charging FDR with foreknowledge of the
attack. Ultimately, General George Marshall, then Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, persuaded Dewey not to make the speeches.
Japan
’s naval leaders did not realize
America
had cracked their codes, and Dewey’s speeches could have sacrificed
America
’s code-breaking advantage…meticulous research led
Stinnet to a firmly held conclusion: FDR knew.”

“Thirty
years ago, it all seemed very clear.‘American
Planes Hit North Vietnam After Second Attack on Our Destroyers; Move
Taken to Halt New Aggression’, announced a Washington Post headline
on Aug. 5, 1964.That
same day, the front page of the New York Times reported: ‘President
Johnson has ordered retaliatory action against gunboats and 'certain
supporting facilities in
North Vietnam
' after renewed attacks against American destroyers in the
Gulf
of
Tonkin
.’But there was no ‘second attack’ by
North Vietnam
-- no ‘renewed attacks against American destroyers.’ By reporting
official claims as absolute truths, American journalism opened the floodgates
for the bloody Vietnam War…The
truth was very different…We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is
telling us the truth.”

“The
Spanish-American War was a watershed event. It was the first eruption
of militarism on the part of the
United States
, which until that time had rested content with consolidating its internal
position, and marked the emergence of
America
as a world power…Was the explosion on the
Maine
a deliberate provocation by US militarists or their agents to foment
war with
Spain
?”

This article will
be extremely valuable to you if you are unaware of the extent of
the military’s psychological operations and their vast range
or research projects into anything that might be weaponized, including
sound, light, and other energies.

“The
paper was titled ‘From PSYOP to MindWar: The Psychology of Victory,’ and
it presented a Nietzschean scheme for waging perpetual psychological
warfare against friend and enemy populations alike, and even against
the American people…the
subsequent paper co-authored by Vallely went way beyond ESP and the
other paranormal techniques advocated by Alexander: "Strategic
MindWar must begin the moment war is considered to be inevitable," the
document stated. "It must seek out the attention
of the enemy nation through every available medium, and it must strike
at the nation's potential soldiers before they put on their uniforms.
It is in their homes and their communities that they are most vulnerable
to MindWar....‘To
this end,’ Vallely and co-author continued, ‘MindWar must
be strategic in emphasis, with tactical applications playing a reinforcing,
supplementary role. In its strategic context, MindWar
must reach out to friends, enemies, and neutrals alike across the globe… MindWar must target all participants to be effective. It must not only
weaken the enemy; it must strengthen the
United States
. It strengthens the United States by denying enemy propaganda access
to our people, and by explaining and emphasizing to our people the
rationale for our national interest in a specific war.’ …President
Dick Cheney's push for military confrontation with
Iran
—one that could see the
United States
carry out the first pre-emptive nuclear attack in history….”

“Gen
Lute predicted that Zarqawi would take the ‘path of least resistance’ and
leave for such countries as
Sudan
,
Ethiopia
and
Somalia
… Gen Lute said 90% of what he
called the
"enemy" in
Iraq
was domestic. There was only a ‘slither’ of foreign fighters ‘sponsored
from outside’…he
refused to be drawn on a timetable for a reduction in US forces - now about
138,000 - in Iraq.”

“…the US
government proposes to eliminate new pledges on foreign aid to poor
nations, scrap provisions calling for action to halt climate change and
urging greater progress by nuclear powers in dismantling their nuclear
arms.The
US
proposals also call for tougher action against terrorism, promoting human
rights and democracy and halting the spread of the world's deadliest
weapons…The US
administration also opposes language that urges the five permanent members
of the UN Security Council not to cast vetoes on resolutions to halt genocide,
war crimes or ethnic cleansing, the daily added.”

“A couple is being protected by police after
their home was wrongly identified on Fox News as belonging to an
Islamic radical.After
the report aired on Aug.7, people have shouted profanities at Randy
and Ronnell Vorick, taken photos of their house, and spray-painted "terrorist" (misspelling
it
"terrist") on their property.”Does
Fox News still think there are WMD in
Iraq
or that Saddam planned 9/11, too?

CINDY SHEEHAN PROTEST

In what was termed a “news vacuum,” attention
turned to grieving mother Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in
Iraq.She camped out near President Bush’s
vacation home in Crawford TX demanding an audience with the Commander-in-Chief,
who snubbed her while media pundits launched a cruel smear campaign against
her.

"They
were very respectful. They were nice men. I told them
Iraq
was not a threat to the
United States
and that now people are dead for nothing. I told them I wouldn't leave
until I talked to George Bush…I want to ask the president, 'Why did
you kill my son? What did my son die for?’"

“Cindy
Sheehan phoned me from
Texas
a few minutes ago to say that she's been informed that beginning Thursday, she and her companions will be considered a threat to national
security and will be arrested.”

“I
am tired of all the lies while young men continue to die. I want him
to finally admit that my son, Casey, didn’t die for a noble cause,
but died in order that President Bush’s friends could get rich
and line their greedy pockets with oil money.”

”Even as other members of military families, activists
and ordinary citizens rally to her cause, the right-wing attack machine
has already kicked into gear, questioning her motives and distorting
her statements.”

“…we
have a couple of anti-peace people on the other side of the road holding
up signs that remind me that "Freedom isn't Free" but I don't
see them putting their money where their mouths are. I don't think they are willing to pay even a small down payment for freedom
by sacrificing their own blood or the flesh of their children.I still challenge them to go to
Iraq
and let another soldier come home. Perhaps a soldier that is on his/her
third tour of duty, or one that has been stop-lossed after serving
his/her country nobly and selflessly, only to be held hostage in
Iraq by power mad hypocrites who have a long history of avoiding
putting their own skin in the game…Now
they have to twist, distort, lie, and scrutinize anything I have
ever said when they never scrutinize anything that George Bush said
or is saying…Why are our nation's children still in
harm's way and dying everyday when we all know you lied? Why do you
continually say we have to ‘complete the mission’ when
you know damn well you have no idea what that mission is and you
can change it at will like you change your cowboy shirts?”

“"You
get
America
out of
Iraq
and
Israel
out of
Palestine
and you'll stop the terrorism," Sheehan declares…‘And now I'm going to use another
'I' word - impeachment - because we cannot have these people pardoned.
They need to be tried on war crimes and go to jail.’”

“The
invective toward Cindy Sheehan seems to know no bounds. Phil Hendrie’s
‘ignorant cow’ line drew some criticism at the posting site, but
it also attracted the following remarks:‘In
a more civil society, we’d toss her ass in jail for giving aid and comfort
to the enemy.’”

“The
right wing attacks on Cindy Sheehan -- desperate, pathetic, and grasping
at straws -- expose much less about their target than about the attackers…How much longer can the Bushies get
away with mauling the very values they profess to stand for before
their supporters start getting wise to the fact that the only value
they really value is power?”

A good read for more
on ex-Enron executive Rove’s smear campaigns and other underhanded
political tactics.“To slander opponents so their
political positions are discredited -- Karl Rove's doctrine has been
immensely effective in defeating Bush's challengers; will it now
be effective in defeating grieving mother Cindy Sheehan? …George Bush and Karl Rove
are not just back-stabbers -- they make Richard Nixon look like an
angel. Rove and Bush are unique. Their vulgarity is wrenching,
their lies are outrageous, their maliciousness is extreme, and their
morality is nonexistent.”

“Paula
Zahn referred to her as ‘this woman.’ Edmund Morris alluded
to her in the New York Times as an ‘emotional predator.’ And
Dana Milbank wanted to ‘determine, once and for all, whether
Cindy Sheehan is Rosa Parks or Lyndon Larouche.’”

“…President
Bush charged Tuesday that anti-war protesters like Cindy Sheehan
who want troops brought home immediately do not represent the views
of most U.S. military families and are "advocating a policy
that would weaken the United States."Bringing
our troops home from the quagmire that he has gotten us into will
be weakening the
United States
? George: Even if you pretend you didn't know that Saddam did not have
weapons of mass destruction and
Iraq
was not a threat to the
USA
before you invaded -- Americans know differently. We have read the reports
and the Downing Street Memos. We know you had to "fit the intelligence
around the policy" of invading
Iraq
. I want to know what your real reasons were….”

”A
majority of the Americans, however, doubt the country will win the
war in
Iraq
, according to a July 27
USA
Today/CNN/
Gallup
Poll.It was also the first
poll that showed more than half
of Americans - 51 per cent - believed the Bush administration was deliberately
misleading the public when it asserted that
Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction…‘This
is Vietnam No. 2. As we are seeing in the polls, the American people
are beginning to realize this war was created on lies, deceit and deception,’ Niederer
said.”

”Bush
speaking to the VFW gathering is like an Orthodox rabbi offering advice
on pork recipes to a cooking class. Joyfully, not
all the delegates were buying his fantasies. One of them, 73-year-old
Bill Moyer, wore cardboard covers over his ears labeled ‘bullshit
protectors.’
… The president's pattern of blame and
denial and his rattled response to the criticism of his disastrous war are
manifestations of his addiction-damaged and dangerous personality, according
to psychiatrist Dr. Justin Frank…”

“Dissatisfaction is not limited to
the president.Fewer
than four in 10 Americans -- 37 percent -- approve of the way the
Republican-controlled Congress is doing its job, the lowest rating
for lawmakers in nearly eight years.“

“As his poll figures continue on a downward spiral, he has found
it necessary to put extra effort into "catapulting the propaganda." Though
he struck a new note or two in each speech, these were exceedingly
familiar, crush-the-terrorists, stay-the-course, path-to-victory
speeches. That's hardly surprising, since his advisors and speechwriters
have been wizards of repetition.”

“’There
are few things in life more difficult than seeing a loved one go off
to war. Here, in
Idaho
, a mom named Tammy Pruett ... knows that feeling six times over,’ the
president said in a speech to citizen soldiers here.”Clearly,
he doesn’t know that feeling at
all.Also clear is that he will meet with
military families who support the war, but not with those that oppose
it.”As fresh violence raged
across Iraq Wednesday, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ordered 1,500
more US troops to the country to beef up security for the planned elections.”

“The President of the
United States
is calling on American young people to volunteer to go to war, but his
own daughters, who are certainly of the appropriate age, are better known
for their drunken nightclub escapades than for any acts of patriotism…‘President
Bush, if your own two daughters won't enlist, how can you expect anyone
else's children to join the military?’"

“The American Legion, which has 2.7 million members, has declared
war on antiwar protestors, and the media could be next. Speaking
at its national convention in Honolulu, the group's national commander
called for an end to all ‘public protests’ and ‘media
events’ against the war, even though they are protected by
the Bill of Rights.‘We
had hoped that the lessons learned from the Vietnam War would be
clear to our fellow citizens. Public
protests against the war here at home while our young men and women
are in harm's way on the other side of the globe only provide aid
and comfort to our enemies.’”

“If
there is one thing I have come to know through all of my years working
in politics. it is that liberals will always accuse their opposition
of precisely the actions they are undertaking.”I find the assertions
of this writer to be remarkable.Psychopaths
commonly accuse others of the very crimes they commit themselves (though
he attributes this trait to “liberals”).Let’s see.Hateful?Could
murdering people you don’t know in a foreign country be considered
hateful?Ignorant?Could
not knowing that embarking on an unprovoked murder spree would be condemned
by the world be considered ignorant?

“’Many
readers find her shrill, bombastic, and mean-spirited. And those are
the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives,’ the
recently appointed Stoeffler wrote.”

CREEPING TOTALITARIANISM

Do you know how the
brutal, hateful, criminal regime of the Nazis came to power in a
modern,
“enlightened” society in the 20th century?Those of you who say it couldn’t happen again, do you
know how it happened in the first place?The
Nazis gained power by presenting themselves as defenders of conservative social,
moral, fiscal, and even Christian religious values, decency, democracy, constitutional
law, and civic order.They championed
patriotism, glorified military service, and denounced
“liberalism.”They
wedded corporate power with government power to work toward common goals.Does any of this sound familiar yet?The Nazis were also highly secretive,
and the leadership planned and carried out massive, murderous crimes behind
a smokescreen of propaganda and counterintelligence against the German people
and the world at large.They harbored
insane fantasies of world domination and promoted the cruelest and most ruthless
ideologues to positions of power.Behind
a ceaseless torrent of propaganda via a controlled press, they grew their power
until they could legally silence or eliminate opposition groups and individuals.
By the time they’d become overstretched and bogged down in hopeless wars,
the people already knew not to dare to stand up against their leadership, for
fear of imprisonment and/or death.The buzzwords of the regime:social
values, moral values, decency, democracy, law, order, patriotism.Is
it happening again?

“John
Keegan points out in his 1999 essay "How Hitler could have won
the war", the Nazis could
easily have chosen to conquer the
Middle East
's oilfields instead. Even if this had not been entirely successful,
Hitler would have probably ended up controlling enough of
Europe
's energy supplies to force a stalemate…”

A Summer of Double Super Secrecy: Fingerprints of Power"...the
"Secret Group of Al-Qaeda in Europe" (the "organization"
that originally claimed responsibility for the
London
bombings). The name speaks volumes. Why call it the "secret" group
- is it opposed to the "public" group? If it were more in
tune with the times, it whould be called the Super-Secret Group. The
moniker sounds like an unintended effect of Western cultural imperialism;
namely, too many comic book-inspired movies...Oh, Bush Administration, you want to consistently
lie to us humble journalists in order to start a war? Well we just
might have to write an indignant all-too-late op-ed piece and then
come back for some more abuse!...Rove's
fate is a watershed symptom, not the least for what it says about totalitarianism's
immune system. If he stays on, his power grows stronger after a failed
attack. Like the staged assassination attempts of ancient regimes,
it will further numb popular will, at least when it comes to electoral
politics. If Rove is fired, he would likely stick around, withdrawing
even further into "double supersecret background" where he
could secrete influence from the protective cover of shadows."

CoIntelPro is a counter-intelligence
program – one that stops the spread of knowledge of the truth,
usually by means of disinformation and a host of other tactics.

The Neo-Shill Media -- When Armageddon Gets No Press"What
has become of the print and TV media watchdogs who hounded President
Nixon from office because he lied about when he learned of a minor burglary
of no consequence in itself? What became of the watchdog media that bayed
after President Reagan because some low level neoconservative officials
sold arms to
Iran
and diverted the money to anti-communist insurgents in
Latin America
? President Clinton was impeached by the House, though not convicted
by the Senate, for lying about a sexcapade with a White House intern.
Now that we really need them, the watchdog media has hired out as public
relations and propaganda shills for the Bush administration and the
neocon network. The entire Bush administration-not merely the president-is
involved in the most extraordinary lies and fabrication of false intelligence
claims in order to lead America into an unwarranted and illegal invasion
of Iraq, an invasion that has cost the US taxpayers $300 billion and
resulted in the deaths and maiming of tens of thousands of people."

Outspoken journalist abducted, killed in Iraq
"Freelance journalist Steven Vincent went to
Iraq
because he believed in the
U.S.
effort there, but he wasn't afraid to write critically about the war
and its messy aftermath. That combination of passion and dedication may
have cost Vincent his life."

“The
Free America Project is a series of planned media releases, first CD's,
then videos and radio show features, centering around the current Christo-Fascist
takeover of the federal government of the
United States of America
.The corporate-owned media have failed this nation. Local and
network TV and radio newscasts, as well as local and national newspapers,
have not only failed to report any information about this, but have acted
as White House press department, have openly covered up and misconstrued
incriminating stories and facts and even invented disinformation to keep
Ohio and America in the dark. For this reason we must get the information
out there ourselves. We must ‘be the media’.”

Pentagon to Increase Domestic Surveillance for Counterterrorism
"the Pentagon in late June announced its "Strategy for Homeland Defense
and Support," which would expand its reach domestically to prevent
"enemy attacks aimed at Americans here at home... a society where not
just the police, but the military are on the street corners gathering intelligence
on citizens..."

'Eternal
planes' to watch over us
Unmanned surveillance vehicles are increasingly omnipresent in a world
which relies on knowing what people and places are doing... It is believed
that up to 800 remotely piloted aircraft are in operation in
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
."

“The
United States
long ago ceased to be anything like a living, thriving republic… President George W. Bush has granted himself the power to declare
anyone on earth -- including any
U.S.
citizen -- an "enemy combatant,"for
any reason he sees fit… It doesn't matter anymore
if the president's orders to suspend the Conventions, construct a worldwide
gulag, torture captives, spy on Americans, fabricate intelligence and
wage aggressive war are illegal under the ‘quaint’ strictures
of the old dispensation; the courts, packed with Bushist cadres, are
now affirming the new order, the ‘critical authority’ of
the Commander, beyond law and morality, on the higher plane of what
Bush calls ‘the path of action.’ There has been virtually
no institutional resistance to this open coup d'etat. It's now clear
that the American Establishment -- and a significant portion of the
American people -- have given up on the democratic experiment.”

Americans Are Warned About Overseas Travel
"The State Department issued an updated worldwide caution on terrorism
yesterday, warning Americans about the threat of extremist violence against
U.S.
citizens and interests abroad. The warning did not list countries,
nor did department officials offer any additional specifics about threats...
The targets could include places where Americans meet or visit, such
as residential areas, hotels and restaurants, as well as places of worship,
schools, clubs, business offices and public areas, the caution said.
It also noted that
"demonstrations and rioting" can occur with little or no warning."

Last night, I was booked to play an event about an hour
outside of
Salt Lake City
,
Utah
. The hype behind this show was huge, they presold 700 tickets and they
expected up to 3,000 people total. The promoters did an amazing job with
the show.. they even made slipmats with the flyers on them to promote
in local shops.

So,
we got to the show around 11:15 or so and it was really cool. It was
all outdoors, in a valley surrounded by huge mountains. They had an
amazing light show flashing on to a mountain behind the site, the sound
was booming, the crowd was about 1500 people thick and everything just
seemed too good to be true really. Well...

At
about 11:30 or so, I was standing behind the stage talking with someone
when I noticed a helicopter pulling over one of the mountain tops.
I jokingly said
"Oh look, here comes big brother" to the person I was with. I wasn't
far off.

The
helicopter dipped lower and lower and started shining its lights on
the crowd. I was kind of in awe and just sat and watched this thing
circle us for a minute. As I looked back towards the crowd I saw a
guy dressed in camoflauge walking by, toting an assault rifle. At this
point, everyone was fully aware of what was going on . A few "troops" rushed
the stage and cut the sound off and started yelling that everyone "get
the fuck out of here or go to jail". This is where it got really
sticky.

No
one resisted. That's for sure. They had police dogs raiding the crowd
of people and I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs
on him. The soldiers attacked the guy (4 of them on 1), and kicked
him a few times in the ribs and had their knees in his back and sides.
As they were cuffing him, there was about 1000 kids trying to leave
in the backdrop, peacefully. Next thing I know, A can of fucking TEAR
GAS is launched into the crowd. People are running and screaming at
this point. Girls are crying, guys are cussing... bad scene.

Now,
this is all I saw with my own eyes, but I heard plenty of other accounts
of the night. Now this isnt gossip I heard from some candy raver, these
are instances cited straight out of the promoters mouth..

- One
of the promoters friends (a very small female) was attacked by one
of the police dogs. As she struggled to get away from it, the police
tackled her. 3 grown men proceeded to KICK HER IN THE STOMACH. …”And much more that is very interesting, and a link leading to video footage of the event…

“The department confirmed that it will issue the first such passports
this December, as anticipated. The current plan calls for all domestic
passport agencies to issue them by October 2006… ‘What
we are witnessing amounts to an effort by the U.S. government and
others (whether conscious or not) to leapfrog over the politically
untenable idea of adopting a national identity card, and set a course
directly toward the creation of a global identity document,’ said
a white paper from the ACLU issued last November….”

“Security
officials gathered Monday at a Canadian border crossing to mark the
first test of a radio frequency identification system to be used by
foreign visitors…”

Calls to end US domination of the internet
"...35 years after the US military invented the internet, the US Department
of Commerce retains overall control of the master computers that direct traffic
to and from every web and email address on the planet... only the US can make
changes to that master file. And that has some WGIG members very worried indeed. "It's
about who has ultimate authority," says Kummer. 'In theory, the
US
could decide to delete a country from the master root server. Some people
expect this to happen one day...'"

"Leaked
emails from two former prosecutors claim the military commissions set
up to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay are rigged, fraudulent, and thin
on evidence against the accused... Maj Preston writes that the process
is perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and that the cases
being pursued are marginal."

Suspect's tale of travel and torture
"Alleged bomb plotter claims two and a half years of interrogation under
US and UK supervision in 'ghost prisons' abroad... interrogation and alleged
torture endured by so-called ghost detainees held at secret prisons around
the world."

"Two
Yemeni men say they were held in solitary confinement in secret, underground
U.S.
detention facilities in an unknown country and interrogated by masked
men for more than 18 months without being charged or allowed any contact
with the outside world..."

'One of them made cuts in my penis. I was in agony'" Benyam
Mohammed travelled from
London
to
Afghanistan
in July 2001, but after September 11 he fled to
Pakistan
. He was arrested at
Karachi
airport on April 10 2002, and describes being flown by a
US
government plane to a prison in
Morocco
. These are extracts from his diary... 'They told me that I must plead
guilty. I'd have to say I was an al-Qaida operations man, an ideas
man. I kept insisting that I had only been in
Afghanistan
a short while. "We don't care," was all they'd say.'"

“An Afghan detainee who died in military custody was
injured so severely that his leg muscles were split apart, an Air Force
medical examiner testified Tuesday in the trial of a soldier accused
in the beating.”

“Many
individuals and organizations around the world allege that George Bush
has used his position as President of the
United States
and Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces to carry out torture
that has included among its victims at least one Canadian (a minor) and
many, perhaps thousands, of other non-Americans. These allegations and
the evidence supporting them are widely available. LAW wants to present
this evidence in court…LAW
insists that diplomatic immunity is irrelevant to this case of torture. Canadian
jurisdiction to prosecute Mr. Bush was triggered when he came to
Canada
on November 30, 2004 and when a Canadian citizen became the victim
of torture under Mr. Bush command.”

Carter: Guantanamo Detentions DisgracefulCarter
also criticized the U.S.-led war in
Iraq
as "unnecessary and unjust." "I think what's going on
in
GuantanamoBay
and other places is a disgrace to the
U.S.A.
,"...

9/11
and the "War on Terrorism""Millions
of people have been misled regarding the causes and consequences of September
11. When people across the US and around the World find out that Al Qaeda
is not an outside enemy but a creation of US foreign policy and the CIA,
the legitimacy of the bipartisan war agenda will tumble like a deck of
cards... the 'war on terrorism' has diverted attention from all other
issues, including the militarization of America and a looming social
and economic crisis, marked by rising levels of poverty and unemployment."

“A US military team identified four Sept. 11 hijackers, including
ringleader Mohammed Atta, as a likely part of an al-Qaida cell over
a year before the 2001 attacks, a former team member said on Tuesday.”

“Rieckhoff
suggested the event was an ill-conceived publicity stunt. "I think
it's clear that their public opinion polls are in the toilet," he
said.Rumsfeld's walk had some relatives of
9/11 victims fuming."How
about telling Mr. Rumsfeld to leave the memories of Sept. 11 victims
to the families?"
said Monica Gabrielle, who lost her husband in the attacks.”

“For two years after 9/11, I accepted the official story by the
Bush administration and by the 9/11 Commission's report of a year
ago…But now there are many, including myself, who
question whether we've been told the full truth about what really
happened. A Zogby poll a year ago found that half
of
New York City
residents believed that the Bush administration knew about the attacks
ahead of time and didn't stop them. This was not a partisan poll
either -- half the respondents were Republicans…there's no way that our air defense system
-- the best in the world -- could have been so incompetent that it
failed to raise the alarm earlier about not just one but four separate
plane hijackings.In
67 consecutive suspicious incidents in the eight months prior to
9/11, interceptor planes were scrambled every time within 10 minutes…It's
painful to say, or even think about, but Griffin and I
and many others are increasingly convinced that Bush and his top
aides have lied about 9/11 in the same way that they have lied
about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq's role in the terrorist
attacks and about Social Security going bankrupt.”

Highly recommended article for those unfamiliar with the peculiarities
of this event.“Towers that fell ‘like
a controlled demolition’. Planes that vanished then mysteriously
reappeared, And crucial evidence that has been lost for ever. A new
book raises bizarre yet deeply unsettling questions about the world’s
worst terror atrocity….. Did the CIA actively help the hijackers? …the
towers had expressly been built to survive the impact of a Boeing
707, a plane the same size and carrying as much fuel as the ones
that struck. That they collapsed after being hit and fell at such
speed was unprecedented in the history of architecture. It astonished
many engineers…‘The fire wasn’t hot enough
to cause a collapse’… In a repeat of
New York
, no evidence has ever been produced from the wreckage to prove that
it was Flight 77 that hurtled into the side of the Pentagon at 350mph…The hole in the Pentagon was too small
for a Boeing…”

“…nearly
a year after the monumental and treacherous catastrophe which struck
lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, an audio tape of firefighter communications
was finally released -- which proves that the actual conditions at
and near the point of impact in the north WTC tower only moments before
the building's collapse were totally inconsistent with the conditions
which had to have existed for the official version to be even minimally
correct…a stupendously far-reaching conspiracy
and cover-up -- involving the highest levels of US government -- lies
behind the 9-11 ‘attacks on America’.”

“[William] Rodriguez,
who has damaging eye-witness testimony that bombs exploded in the
WTC basement prior to the airplanes striking, said today
his apartment was burglarized between 12:30pm and 7:50pm after
retuning home and noticing his second-floor apartment door wide-open…Although
Rodriguez's story has been told freely without censorship overseas
in a number of foreign markets, the American media as well as the
9/11 Commission has seen fit to suppress his story, a story that
very well could lead to pinning the Bush administration with high-crimes
related to the 9/11 cover-up.”

“The outright criminal
censorship by the media continues to rock the foundations of our
free speech rights as another mainstream radio personality, claiming
to be independent, bites the dust, deciding this week to “shut
up” a listener after she tried discussing the explosions in
the WTC basement on 9/11 as the real cause of the collapse.”

“Vic Sadot has a knack for tackling tough political issues and then turning
them into the sweet sound of music. But unfortunately his brand of
brash, hard-hitting folk music, similar to Bob Dylan in the 60’s,
is a rarity nowadays and about as hard to find as an honest judge.”

“Just as the world ignored
Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, which laid out der Furher's ‘road
map for peace’, in Europe...many of our countrymen have ignored
the true intentions of our ‘War on Terror’…The
strategy is to control virtually all Middle Eastern reserves and
thereby, control our global competitors, such as
China
and
Japan
...but to accomplish this, we must also control
Iran
's vast oil and gas reserves. Without that, we have no creditable monopoly…the neo-cons must now move forward with all
haste. They are on the clock and they will be forced
to act soon...or they, themselves, will be sacrificed by the ‘powers
that be’…Some
think we will immediately retaliate for a "false flag" attack,
which many claim happened on 9/11 in the
United States
and on 7/7 in the
U.K.If that's the case, the only ones who will believe it
at this point are the terminally ignorant Bush believers...but unfortunately,
they still make up a sizable portion of this country, and, as long as they
remain
"believers", the neo-cons cannot be forced out of power.”

”Amid the smoke from the fortuitous fire emerged the
possibility that al-Qaeda may not be, strictly speaking, an organization
but an element of an intelligence agency operation. Turkish intelligence
specialists agree that there is no such organization as al-Qaeda.”

“…military
lawyers forced members of the intelligence program to cancel three
scheduled meetings with the F.B.I. at the last minute, which left the
bureau without information that Colonel Shaffer said might have led
to Mr. Atta and the other terrorists while the Sept. 11 attacks were
still being planned.”

Long but critical-to-readarticle
regarding the “Art Students” could-be scandal for those
unaware of this important, years-old, still-shocking story and Israeli
espionage against the
United States
.“The possibility that the suspicious
Israeli activity was linked to the movements of Al Qaeda cells cannot
be brushed aside as merely coincidental…Other
suspected Israeli intelligence activity surrounding 911, including the
arrest by New Jersey police near Giants Stadium of five Israelis who
were seen celebrating, high-fiving, jumping up and down, and videotaping
the collapse of the World Trade Center, was reported by the media…The Israelis
were later linked to an Israeli-owned office moving company called Urban
Moving Systems headquartered in
Weehawken
,
New Jersey
…According to several
Weehawken
neighbors of the Urban Moving Systems warehouse, the FBI, upon searching
the warehouse, discovered fertilizer, other chemicals for making
explosives, pipes, caps, and traces of anthrax…Perhaps
the espionage incident would have faded entirely had it not been
for the fact that similar art students, with unbelievable alibis,
were caught in 2003 by Canadian security police around the Houses
of Parliament in
Ottawa
…A Justice Department
source confided that it was Attorney General John Ashcroft who personally
ordered the investigation of the Israelis stopped in the months prior to 911 – a
decision that proved fateful for the thousands of people who persished on September
11.”

“HERE
IN THE UNITED STATES, the Zionists and their co-religionists have
complete control of our government. For many reasons, too many
and too complex to go into here at this time, the Zionists and their
co-religionists rule these
United States
as though they were the absolute monarchs of this country. Now you
may say that is a very broad statement, but let me show you what happened
while we were all asleep…We are going to suffer the same fate
as
Germany
suffered, and for the same reason.”

“A
car spoke to me from its bumper sticker the other day: ‘If you
don’t love this country, get the f--- out!’…‘Support our troops’, despite its benign-sounding
inclusiveness, is not a neutral statement. As our new, federal slogan,
it makes ‘our troops’
inseparable from the government that commands them…The ‘War on Terror’ is not really a war, and it’s
certainly not on terror. It’s a brand…Suppose
everything the administration has said about the war has been a lie.
Just suppose for a minute. Suppose they had other motivations all along.
How would you know about it?”

"’I
am pretty outspoken about a lot of things and it wouldn't surprise
me if another terrorist hits us harder than 9/11, putting the country
under a state of emergency and martial law while at the same time taking
the heat off Bush.

This
reminds me of Nazi Germany. The people are being fed propaganda and
in turn the dollar is going to hell as are the rest of our freedoms.
I don't think we should give up our freedoms in order to be safer,
when all the government is trying to do is take us over from within.’…”

"The
ABA
position is that some of these provisions are so invasive of individual
liberties that there has to be a sunset provision. They're offensive,
I think, to democracy…"

Bush bypasses Senate to install Bolton as UN envoy
"President George Bush yesterday sidestepped the Senate and installed
John Bolton as
US
ambassador to the UN, despite protests from Democrats that the controversial
neo-conservative will undermine
America
's credibility. Mr Bolton's appointment has been blocked for more than
five months by Senate Democrats who have been demanding the Bush administration
release classified information they claim would shed more light on Mr
Bolton's past, including claims that he tried to manipulate US intelligence
to support his hawkish views."

Democratic Leadership Council drafts right-wing platform
for coming elections
"The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) held its annual convention in
Columbus
,
Ohio
, last weekend, outlining its program for the upcoming 2006 mid-term
elections and the presidential election in 2008. Speeches at the
meeting and documents published in advance indicate that the Democratic
Party plans to run an extremely right-wing campaign, particularly on
the issues of "national security" and the war in
Iraq
... As anti-war sentiment grows - with recent polls indicating that
60 percent of Americans favor an immediate partial or complete pullout
from
Iraq
- the Democratic Party responds by calling for an intensification
of the war effort."

U.S. suppressed footage of Hiroshima for decades
"
U.S.
authorities seized and suppressed film shot in the bombed cities by
U.S.
military crews and Japanese newsreel teams to prevent Americans from
seeing the full extent of devastation wrought by the new weapons... Americans
are still being kept at a distance from images of death, whether of their
own soldiers or Iraqi civilians" Why do you think the government
takes part in the clear suppression of truth/reality?

Hackers prowess on display at Defcon conference"This
year's hot topics included a demonstration of just how easy it may be
to attack supposedly foolproof biometric safeguards, which determine
a person's identity by scanning such things as thumb prints, irises and
voice patterns.... A group of twentysomethings from
Southern California
climbed onto the hotel roof to show that RFID tags could be read from
as far as 69 feet (21 meters). That's important because the tags have
been proposed for such things as
U.S.
passports, and critics have raised fears that kidnappers could use
RFID readers to pick traveling
U.S.
citizens out of a crowd.... RFID companies had said the signals didn't
reach more than 20 feet... 'Our goal is to raise awareness," said
Hering, 22.
"Our hope is to spawn other research so that people will move to secure
this technology before it becomes a problem.'"

D.C. Airspace May Be Restricted for Good"The
government wants permanently to restrict a wide swath of airspace over
the
Washington
area and make it a crime if a private pilot knowingly enters a zone
that extends from
Maryland
to
Virginia
."

“It’s
no longer Zionized Left vs. Armageddon Right — the new political
Feather of Truth is honesty…The
middle of the American political spectrum, totally ignored by the corporate
spin machine under the assumption that “to go along to get along” is
the political philosophy of choice for most of its listeners, is becoming
radicalized over the issue of honesty. Under the media’s very
noses. That’s delicious.”

“Domestic
Effort Is Big Shift for Military…it noted the possibility that ground troops might be sent into
action on U.S. soil to counter security threats and deal with major
emergencies…when
it comes to ground forces possibly taking a lead role in homeland operations,
senior Northcom officers remain reluctant to discuss specifics.”

“
US
attorney's demotion halted probe of lobbyist…Abramoff
was a well-known lobbying figure in the Pacific islands because of his
work for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and
Saipan
garment manufacturers, accused of employing workers in what critics called
sweatshop conditions.”

There has not been a gap in the stream of alleged terror threats,
all of which turn out to be false.Who
is behind keeping the scare going and who is benefiting from it?“…but officials
stressed Thursday the warning was based on uncorroborated intelligence…The warning
has not been substantiated…”

“Pentagon insiders report that Byrnes was fired for insubordination…In 2002, Byrnes was faced with being retired at Lt. Gen. after
he clashed with then-Rumsfeld aide Stephen Cambone over proposed
troop strength cuts…The
personal misconduct charges were concocted by the Pentagon to cover
up the fact that there are serious disagreements with Bush and Rumsfeld among the
flag officer ranks in the military….”

”…The
Army's top general, Gen. Peter Schoomaker, said Saturday in an interview
with The Associated Press that the Army is planning for the possibility
of keeping the current number of soldiers in Iraq - well over 100,000
- for four more years as part of preparations for a worst-case scenario...‘I don't know where he's going
to get these troops,’ Hagel said. ‘There won't be any National
Guard left ... no Army Reserve left ... there is no way America is
going to have 100,000 troops in Iraq, nor should it, in four years.’”One way to raise
troop levels is to ensure that the economy tanks, perhaps from overspending?

“US soldiers
in Iraq and Afghanistan "know that if we do not confront these
evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities
and streets, and they know that the safety and security of every
American is at stake in this war, and they know we will prevail," he
said.”That
statement, by the way, is almost and exact quote of what President
Johnson said in 1967 about the Vietnam War.Was
it true then?In those
days, they also spoke about, “helping them build a democracy,” and “laying
the foundation for peace for the future.”Sound
familiar?

“Although Colin Powell had spent five million dollars on a study
for how to operate in post war
Iraq
the study was nixed and the neo-conservatives wouldn't send experienced
Arabic speakers or diplomats to
Iraq
…The lies perpetuated by the
Bush administration are mere ‘window dressing for the ultimate reasons
we're in
Iraq
.’
Reasons cited by Tharp include oil, protecting allies, and control of the
world…‘I am going
to do everything I can to end this war as soon as possible,’ Tharp
says.”

“Counterdemonstrators
in
Tennessee
chase away members of small church…Members
of a church say God is punishing American soldiers for defending a country
that harbors gays, and they brought their anti-gay message to the funerals
Saturday of two
Tennessee
soldiers killed in
Iraq
…”

DO THEY WANT TO SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET?

The U.S. government asserts itself in retaining
control of the internet while the campaign of ‘net-based “threats
and surreptitious moves toward censorship continue.

“With laptops and DVDs, in secret hideouts and at neighborhood Internet
cafes, young code-writing jihadists have sought to replicate the
training, communication, planning and preaching facilities they lost
in
Afghanistan
with countless new locations on the Internet.”

“With the Internet viewed as their largest obstacle at this point
in time, the Bilderberg Group globalists were seen and heard in
this meeting making comments about how the Internet in America must
be shut down…Realize
that there are a sad minority of people out there STILL believing
that Bush is a Christian, even though he has NEVER been seen at any
church services, does NOT belong to any church congregation, and
didn’t attend one single memorial service for any of the 9/11
victims. Even though it has been documented and proven that the Skull & Bones
initiation ritual involves homosexual acts in a coffin, and Skull & Bones
itself is a part of a larger occult group that calls itself ‘The
Brotherhood of Death,’ there are people still out there trying
so desperately to believe that Bush is a Christian -- such is the
level of their denial…The tens of millions of people who have been awakened to the
lies and crimes of the globalists is the reason why the Internet
must be stopped…[Some
things to expect:] Internet Will Be Used As Part of Terror Attack Against The
USA…Passage of Hate-Crime Laws and Hate-Speech
Laws (thought crimes)...Passage
of Hate-Crime Laws and Hate-Speech Laws (thought crimes)…United Nations or
USA
Control of Domain Name Servers”

“A trail of hidden clues suggests Google is building
its own Internet -- and might be looking to let everyone connect for
free…Feeva CEO Nitin Shah confirms that
the company is working with Google but won't discuss details. Google's
interest in Feeva likely stems from the startup's proprietary technology,
which can determine the location of every Wi-Fi user and would allow
Google to serve up advertising and maps based on real-time data.”

ROVE AND LIBBY

The growing scandal surrounding the illegal leak
of CIA employee Valerie Plame’s name to the press by White House
sources continues.Readers
of alternative new sites on the web knew about this as soon as it happened,
while the mainstream media didn’t mention it until months later
and the New York Times prevented journalists from investigating it, saying “it
didn’t happen.”

“Lewis
‘Scooter’ Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney,
has told federal investigators that he met with New York Times reporter Judith
Miller on July 8, 2003, and discussed CIA operative Valerie Plame, according
to legal sources familiar with Libby's account…Lewis Libby may possibly have the ability to ascertain Miller's
release by simply signing a specific, personal waiver that she disclose what
she knows.But Libby does
not appear to be willing to do that.”

TREASONGATE:
IN CAHOOTS -- How The White House, Wilson, Novak, Corn and Plame
Conspired for Treason--Long, but good article for those who don’t fully
grasp the importance of this case.“Joe Wilson is in cahoots with the Bush Administration along
with David Corn, Bob Novak and Valerie Plame Wilson, a cast of
spooks who have only just been outed with the writing of this
article. They've carefully scripted this entire affair to sield
themselves from prosecution for monolithic treasons against US
citizens and our military. Treasongate, Rovegate, Leakgate, whatever
you want to call it, is, in reality, an intricate version of
hide and seek where the "perpetraitors" have been controlling
both sides of the game.”

Oldest known Bible to go online
" A manuscript containing the oldest known Biblical New Testament in the
world is set to enter the digital age and become accessible online.... The
original document is so precious that it has only been seen by four scholars
in the last 20 years."

Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate
"President Bush invigorated proponents of teaching alternatives to evolution
in public schools with remarks saying that schoolchildren should be taught
about "intelligent design," a view of creation that challenges established
scientific thinking and promotes the idea that an unseen force is behind the
development of humanity... Much of the scientific establishment says that intelligent
design is not a tested scientific theory but a cleverly marketed effort to
introduce religious -- especially Christian -- thinking to students."

“[...]
Armageddon is seen by Christian fundamentalists as "nuclear and
imminent", waiting only for proper orchestration from American
political leaders. The Zionists, naturally, do NOT include Armageddon
in their messianic aspirations. This conflict of interests…”

“For
the viewers at home, in the corner of TV screens a small woman provided
sign language for the hearing impaired. Christ
continued. "But I come before
America
today, for she is the greatest danger to world peace since Genesis…Christian conservatives went on the attack,
charging that Christ was wrong to criticize Bush while he was fighting
the evil forces of Satan in his divinely inspired worldwide crusade
on the war on terror. Christ, as one remarked, seemed to speak with
a French accent, and sounded a lot like a bleeding-heart liberal.”

DEMONIZING
VENEZUELA

It’s become abundantly clear that the U.S.
administration would love to control Venezuela, the world’s fifth-largest
oil-producing nation.Twice
democratically elected president Hugo Chavez has introduced socialist
principles that have resulted in feeding the poor and tending to the
needy by means of actually sharing the national wealth, thus he has been
branded a dictator and despot by the American right wing, which has slowly
been building a propaganda campaign against him at home.Chavez
has been trying to protect himself by speaking openly about the Bush
administration’s desire to oust him.This
month, evangelical leader Pat Robertson publicly called for Chavez’s
assassination, revealing this “man of God,” who has direct
contact with the White House, as a would-be terrorist.

“A ‘top
US department official’ claims ‘Venezuela is destabilizing the border area
with Colombia by supplying weapons to the country's main leftist insurgency,
a top State Department official said Wednesday.’"

“Oil
exports to the
US
could stop amid growing tensions between the two countries, Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez has said… Venezuela
exports about 1.3 million barrels a day to the
US
and is the world's fifth largest oil producer…On
Friday the Venezuelan government withdrew diplomatic immunity from DEA
agents working in the country in response to a
US
decision to revoke the visas of six Venezuelan officials based in
Washington
.”

“Religious
broadcaster Pat Robertson called on Monday for the assassination of
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling him a "terrific danger" to
the
United States
.”Another
“man of God” reveals himself, as so many do, as a murderer in priestly
clothing.Chavez is a “threat” to
the
US
because he shares his nation’s wealth with the people, actually
housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, and tending to the sick.This is intolerable to Western governments
that strive always to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich, and
not only in their own countries."You
know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he
thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought
to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot
cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments
will stop."Note that Robertson doesn’t suggest any objection to the killing
in war, but only to the financial expense."We
have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that
we exercise that ability," Robertson said.This clearly was no “slip of the tongue.”"We
don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm
dictator,"
he continued. "It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert
operatives do the job and then get it over with."Although Robertson calls Chavez a “dictator” in
an effort to spread misinformation, Chavez was democratically elected,
twice.What does this say about Robertson’s
respect for democracy?

“Mr
Chavez has accused
Washington
of conspiring to topple his government and possibly backing plots to
assassinate him.
US
officials have called the accusations ridiculous…Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said this was a "criminal
statement" and the way
Washington
responded to the remarks would put its anti-terrorism policy to the test.‘It's huge hypocrisy to maintain
this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of
that country there are entirely terrorist statements like those.’”

“’I
would say that Pat Robertson is a private citizen and that his views
do not represent the policy of the United States,’ State
Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters, describing the
TV preacher's comments as
‘inappropriate.’ …US
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied that the
Pentagon has considered assassinating the leftist president. ‘Our department doesn't do that type of thing,’ Rumsfeld said.”Of course, that would be a secret agency’s department.

“Hugo
Chavez and the Men Who Claim to Speak for Jesus?… Ever since Chavez began his popular upheaval in
Venezuela
he has been under attack by the Catholic hierarchy in that country. In
fact, members of Opus Dei were involved in the failed coup of 2000 and
have been instrumental in the CIA-funded opposition movement since the
coup, just as they were intimately involved in the murderous CIA-sponsored
coup in September 1973 in
Chile
…”Opus Dei is a secret society (with an innocuous face/cover)
within the Catholic Church that has a far-right wing agenda.”Now, in addition to
having the Catholic hierarchy opposed to him, Mr. Chavez has incurred the wrath
of some in the evangelical community…the comments regarding
oil must strike a chord. After all, that's the underlying reason for Washington's
(and the old guard in
Venezuela
) opposition to Chavez in the first place. Not
only does he using Venezuelan oil revenues to help the perennially
poor in Venezuela, he is also selling it to Cuba at cut rates and making
deals with China, much to the chagrin of Washington.”

“President
Hugo Chávez of
Venezuela
hit back vigorously at calls by an ally of President George Bush for
his assassination by offering cheap petrol to the poor of the
US
at a time of soaring fuel prices…‘We want to sell gasoline and heating
fuel directly to poor communities in the
United States
,’ he said.”As
great as that would be for so many, do you think that the
US
government would allow the profits of the corporations who own it
to be undercut?Never.

”The
offer, made after populist Chavez held talks with U.S. civil rights
activist Rev. Jesse Jackson, would represent 10 percent of the 660,000
bpd of refined products processed by Citgo. The
deals would cut consumer costs by direct sales…. Chavez, a former
army officer who survived a coup in 2002, frequently accuses the
U.S.
of backing efforts to kill him or topple his government.U.S.
officials dismiss those charges but say Chavez has become a threat to
regional stability.”

“Reverend Pat made peace and perhaps a pact with the powers that
be and currently has a direct line to the White House. He, with Jerry
Falwell, claims to have helped make the double-barrel-two term Bush
presidency possible.On Monday the iconic
American Christian using the language of gangsters endorsed the assassination
of Hugo Chavez so we could save 200 billion dollars. The assumption
was that the only two alternatives to dealing with an elected leader
who is critical of the military industrial complex running our country
is to "take him out" or to wage a war. He presents the
options and then chooses the less expensive one.One does pause to wonder if he
is not a loose cannon but that the direct line to the White House
runs both ways. If in fact
Venezuela
and
Iran
are considering an oil embargo against the
US
, this may not be a random Christian perspective…”There seems to be very little doubt that the current administration
has harbored a desire to control
Venezuela
for years now, perhaps even considering invasion.Not a lot of press does that get in the
US
mainstream media, though.”Christ
said - Love your enemy. This phrase means nothing to the most boisterous
Christians like Pat Robertson. To them, this phrase is invisible.”

“’Calling for the assassination
of a head of state is a terrorist act,’ said Chavez … ‘We
could even request his extradition,’ he added…‘We
could offer him free psychiatric treatment ... but he could be
a lost case’ Chavez said sarcastically of Robertson and controversial
statements the conservative commentator has made in the past.Last year, Robertson
said President Bush told him before the
Iraq
invasion: ‘We're not going to have any casualties," but
that "the Lord told me it was going to be (a) a disaster and (b)
messy.’ The White House issued denials.”

“First,
he's got to distance himself from this nut, even though Robertson and
his bowl of nuts are about the only allies Bush has got left. His latest
approval rating is down to 36 percent, the lowest of his presidency,
according to the American Research Group.And
second, Robertson's remarks handcuff Bush, making
the overthrow of Chávez more difficult to execute. Even before
the reverend said, "Thou Shall Kill," Chávez was warning
that Bush wanted to off him. So Robertson lent credence to Chávez's
claim and burnished Chávez's reputation in
Venezuela
and beyond as a Latin American David confronting the Goliath up north.I've believed for a long time that getting rid of Chávez is a priority
for Bush and Cheney. After all, they supported
the coup attempt against him back in 2002…Just last
week, Rumsfeld, who doesn't have enough to do fighting insurgencies in
Iraq
and
Afghanistan
, took time out to go to
Latin America
to try to isolate Chávez.”

DEMONIZING
IRAN

The flood of disinformation
to pave the way for war with
Iran
continues.Currently,
Iraq
WMDs:imaginary. Iran
nukes:imaginary.There has never been any evidence that
Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons, yet the average American,
murkily aware of the “talking points” of the anti-Iran propaganda
campaign, already believes that not only is Iran on the verge of obtaining
nukes, but that they would also use them against the US or US allies.Why
would any country attack the
US
, when the
US
is not only vastly the largest military power on the planet, but has
shown that it has no compunction about attack and invasion?How many of these same Americans are aware of the vigorous
opposition to war on
Iran
stated by
Russia
and
China
?Not many, you can bet, for such to be
allowed to be reported in the
US
media might dampen domestic support for such a war.Consider that for a government to attack the
US
would be suicide.It doesn’t
make sense.There is no
benefit for the attacker.However,
it may be made to appear to happen, as has happened so often in the past.Ask, “who benefits” from
such a war?

“The conventional wisdom is that, even if diplomacy fails, the
US
is so bogged down in
Iraq
that it could not take on
Iran
. However, this misunderstands the capabilities and intentions of the
Bush administration.”

Iran Is Judged 10 Years From Nuclear Bomb
"
U.S.
Intelligence Review Contrasts With Administration Statements... The carefully
hedged assessments, which represent consensus among
U.S.
intelligence agencies, contrast with forceful public statements by the
White House. Administration officials have asserted, but have not offered
proof, that
Tehran
is moving determinedly toward a nuclear arsenal... But the sources
said there is no information linking those projects directly to a nuclear
weapons program... At no time in the past three years has the White
House attributed its assertions about
Iran
to
U.S.
intelligence... The commission found earlier this year that
U.S.
intelligence knows "disturbingly little" about
Iran
, and about
North Korea
."

Nuclear fears grow as Iranian president takes office
"
Iran
's new president, Mahoud Ahmadinejad, took office on Wednesday amid growing
international pressure over his country's nuclear program." Do
fears actually grow or are they spurred by media stories like that simply
say,
"fears grow?"

“Some
Israelis cite the precedent of the 1981 unilateral Israeli airstrike
on
Iraq
's Osirak nuclear reactor.
Israel
, they argue, should do the same again and launch pre-emptive military
attacks on
Iran
's growing nuclear infrastructure.”

“European
negotiators have offered
Iran
long term support for its civilian nuclear program, including the possibility
of acquiring nuclear fuel, in exchange for a binding commitment not to
develop atomic weapons…”

”…the Iranians are now asked to somehow prove
that there are no undeclared activities, a harsh demand bound to
backfire and cement the Iranian objections to the agency's resolution…Sadly,
there has been little objective reporting, paper or electronic, that
has scrutinized the European proposal without the lens of bias…another flaw of the European proposal
is that instead of giving security assurance, it in fact exacerbates
the Iranian anxiety by letting the door open for nuclear attack in
response to a conventional attack…Whatever
happened to a categorical rejection of use of nuclear weapons in
conventional warfare?”

“The
facts about
Iran
's
"alleged" nuclear weapons program have never been in dispute. There
is no such program and no one has ever produced a shred of credible evidence
to the contrary. That hasn't stopped the Bush administration from making spurious
accusations and threats; nor has it deterred
America
's
"imbedded" media from implying that
Iran
is hiding a nuclear weapons program from the IAEA…If
Iran
retaliates against
Israel
or the
US
in
Iraq
, then both nations will proceed with a plan that is already in place
to destroy all of
Iran
's biological, chemical and conventional weapons sites. In fact, this
is the ultimate
US
strategy anyway; not the elimination of the "imaginary" nuclear
weapons facilities. Both the
US
and
Israel
want to "de-fang" the Mullah-regime so that they can control
critical resources and eliminate the possibility of a regional rival
in the future.”

“There is no evidence whatsoever that
Iran
has a nuclear weapons program. But, don't take my word for it. That is
the conclusion of Mohammed El Baradei, the chief of the UN's watchdog
agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency; the most respected nuclear
investigative agency in the world today. After conducting 2 years
of the most rigorous
"go anywhere, see anything" investigations, the agency gave
Iran
a clean bill of health. No nukes! Not now, not ever! …Can
we be equally certain that the administration strategy isn't simply to
annex the primary oil producing region and bomb the main chemical, biological
and conventional weapons sites across the country at the same time? That
way, the
US
would control the oil, eliminate
Iran
as a regional-military rival to
Israel
, and avoid the pitfalls of a massive occupation… Russia
's statement was predictably oblique, but the message is clear;Russia
will not allow
Iran
to go the way of
Iraq.Not surprisingly, this veiled-threat of
Russian retaliation did not appear in any newspaper in the
United States
…This
new statement from the Russian foreign ministry should demonstrate that we
may be closer to the brink then anyone had imagined.”

Following
the recent massacre of his own citizens by Uzbek president and Bush
ally Islam Karimov’s police, Uzbekistan has suddenly asked the
U.S. to abandon its Uzbek military base and leave the country.

Loss of Uzbek hub should not hinder mission
Uzbekistan's decision to end an agreement that let U.S. military aircraft
use a base - an important hub for American operations in Afghanistan
- will not hinder the battle against militants here, a U.S. military
spokesman said Monday. The Karshi-Khanabad air base, commonly referred
to as K2, has been a critical staging point for
U.S.
military operations in
Afghanistan
since the earliest days of the war, which began in October 2001. ...operations
would be reorganized to use air bases at Bagram, just north of the Afghan
capital,
Kabul
; at
Kandahar
, in southern
Afghanistan
; and at Manas, in neighboring
Kyrgyzstan
.

United States losing allies...The
withdrawal of a base from
Uzbekistan
by a six-month deadline set by
Tashkent
is not a big problem militarily. But politically, the loss of an ally
is quite serious for the
United States
. On the one hand, the West will exert much more pressure on the Islam
Karimov regime. But on the other,
China
and
Russia
are not likely to abandon their partner in the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization.

““Americans
expected they would stay there forever, and were setting aside a lot
of funds for the base infrastructure. Our task is to make them hand
the aerodrome — the runway, communications and watch facilities — over
to
Uzbekistan
upkeep,” the source said.”

ISRAEL/PALESTINE

Israeli 'helped suicide bomber'
"An Israeli Jew has been charged with helping a Palestinian suicide bomber
enter
Israel,
where he blew himself up last month, killing five people."

How the UK gave Israel the bomb
"Britain
secretly supplied the 20 tons of heavy water to
Israel
nearly half a century ago which enabled it to make nuclear weapons, according
to
Whitehall
documents which have been discovered at the Public Records Office."

Israeli economic corruption rises
“Israeli economic corruption has increased since the year 2000, making
it one of the most fraudulent in the world, local and international reports
showed on Wednesday... A 2005 World Bank report said
Israel
was one of the most hazardous nations, citing its unstable and inefficient
government and its relatively high level of corruption among its leadership,
as well a low ranking in law enforcement."

“A
great charade is taking place in front of the world media in the Gaza
Strip. It is the staged evacuation of 8000 Jewish settlers from their
illegal settlement homes, and it has been carefully designed to create
imagery to support
Israel
's US-backed takeover of the
West Bank
and cantonization of the Palestinians…Where
were these hundreds of journalists when each of the 680 Palestinian children
shot to death by Israeli soldiers over the last 5 years was laid to rest
by grief-stricken family members? The shame of it all defies words.Sharon's
unilateral "Disengagement" plan is not ending the occupation
of
Gaza
. The Israelis are not relinquishing control over the Strip. They are retaining
control of all land, air and sea borders including the Philadelphi corridor
along the Gaza/Egypt border where the Egyptians may be allowed to patrol
under
Israel
's watchful eye and according to
Israel
's strictest terms…”

"Where
were these 900 international journalists in the last five years while
the entire physical infrastructure of
Gaza
was being destroyed? … When will the dispossession and dehumanization
of Palestinians get a headline? … The departure of 8,500 settlers
is undermined by a net increase of about 10,000 settlers in the
West Bank
every year.”

”Despite U.S. mainstream media reports that the 38-year-occupation
of Palestinians within Gaza has "ended," the Israeli military
still controls water, the Palestinians' passage through checkpoints
and air space…The
three aquifers in the region are controlled by
Israel
. As a result, Palestinians need permits to dig and repair wells. It
is not uncommon for Israeli forces to destroy Palestinian wells.”

”E’verybody
understands that this (withdrawal) is the prelude to the big battle’ over
claims to land still passionately in dispute, Hebrew University political
scientist Reuven Hazan says…Even after
Israel
hands over
Gaza
some time in October, 230,000 Israelis will remain among 2.4 million
Palestinians in the
West Bank
.”Remember that
the “pullout” was only 9000 Israelis.

”Likud polls show ex-finance minister Netanyahu would
rout Sharon in a primary if it were held soon … Netanyahu is the hero of hardline nationalists
in a split Likud, saying the pullout will imperil Israel by turning
Gaza into an "independent terrorist base" rather than a
model for Palestinian statehood as U.S.-led peace mediators hope.”

“Some
believe $60 billion has been pumped into settlements..Now that Israel plans to spend $2 billion
to dismantle just 25 of these enclaves in the West Bank and Gaza -
for which US aid has been requested - raises the question of how much
money has been poured into the ambitious settlement project, and exactly
where it came from.”

“…Israel has ignored the ruling and the UN vote, continues to build
the wall and expand its settlements in the West Bank, also declared
illegal by the ICJ in the same ruling, and that no attempts appear
to have been made by the UK or other European governments to ensure
Israel's compliance.”

"’Is
it possible,’ he continued with his question, ‘that the
Israelis … are unaware of the injustice they have caused here?’ …1,719
Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip from the end of September
2000 until today; and according to various estimates, some two-thirds
of them were unarmed and were not killed in battles or during the course
of attempts to attack a military position or a settlement.Based
on figures from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, of those
killed, 379 were children under the age of 18; 236 were younger than
16; 96 were women; and 102 were the objectives of targeted liquidations
during the course of which the Israel Defense Forces also killed another
95 individuals who, according to the military too, were ‘innocent
bystanders.’”

“Two
former officials of the pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), have been charged with conspiring
with a Pentagon analyst to obtain and disclose classified national
defence information…Israeli
officials identified…”

“…as
the full text of the indictment makes clear, the conspiracy involved
not just Franklin and the AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman,
but at least several other Pentagon officials who played intermediary
roles, at least two other Israeli officials, and one official at a "Washington,
D.C. think tank." It's an old-fashioned spy story involving the
passing of secret documents, hush-hush meetings and outright espionage,
along with good-old-boy networking.”

“The New
Pravda has fingered one
of the unnamed
U.S.
government officials implicated in the AIPAC spy scandal -- while bending
over backwards to make it clear the whole thing is really just a great
big fuss about nothing. I mean, we're talking about
Israel
, for Christ's sake, not some foreign country….”

“She
is the only Jew among 25,000 Arabs in the northern Israeli town of
Tamra
and has taken up the cause of the Palestinians who remained inside the
borders of
Israel
after the state was set up in 1948.Her
harshest critics could not say she has chosen a comfortable path. Friends
and even some relatives have turned against her, she says, but she is
standing by her controversial claim that the Palestinians in
Israel
are victims of apartheid-style discrimination and mistreatment….”

“Israel Military Industries won a
tender Tuesday for around $300 million to supply the
U.S.
army with ammunition. IMI said this is their biggest ammunition deal
with the
U.S.
army to date.”

LATIN AMERICA

America seeks to accelerate end of Castro's regime with
new post
The 46-year stand-off between
Cuba
and
America
has taken a turn for the worse after
Washington
appointed a "transition co-ordinator" to hasten the downfall
of President Fidel Castro. Condoleezza Rice, the
US
secretary of state, chose Caleb McCarry to "accelerate the demise
of Castro's tyranny" on the
Caribbean
island that the Communist dictator has run since a coup in 1959. The
appointment is part of President George W Bush's plan to tighten the
40-year programme of sanctions against
Cuba
.

Great example of fear-mongering
articles.Didn’t
the president say over and over that we aren’t at war with
Islam?“Islam is on the move in
Mexico
and throughout Latin America, making dramatic gains in converting the
native population, increasing immigration, establishing businesses
and charities and attracting attention from
U.S.
government officials who have asked their neighbors to the south to
keep an eye on foreign Muslim groups.”

“Michael
Graham's suspension by management at ABC Radio's WMAL/Washington for
recent on-air comments in which he characterized Islam as a terrorist organization has turned
into a permanent furlough for the controversial midday talker.”Consider the climate that must exist in the
US
for a guy who’s on the radio every day to broadcast this opinion.We may give lip service to free speech,
but people check themselves to avoid reprisal for “stepping out
of line.”Michael Graham thought it was okay to
call Islam itself a “terrorist organization.”What
does that say about how deeply the anti-Islam propaganda has taken
root, and about general ignorance of Islam in the
US
for generations upon generations?

“The
entry, which appeared on thesaurus.com, listed the word ["Arab"]
as a noun meaning ‘beggar,’ and gave 16 pejorative synonyms
including ‘homeless person’ and ‘welfare bum.’ …Several
hours after Roget's Thesaurus was called by The Associated Press, all entries for "Arab" had been
pulled from the site.Barbara
Ann Kipfer, editor of the third edition of Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus,
said the entry had likely been on the site for years, but never made
it into printed versions of the thesaurus.”

”’..it
is crucial that police,
fire and emergency medical personnel take notice of their surroundings,
and be aware of 'vagrants' who seem out of place or unfamiliar,’ said
the message, distributed via e-mail to some federal employees in Washington
by the U.S. Attorney's office.”Considering our
government’s association of terrorists with Arabs and Arabs with
vagrants, I guess Roget’s is going to have to put ‘Arab’ back
in the thesaurus, eh?“The e-mail stresses
that there is no threat of an attack and that it is intended to be ‘informative,
not alarming.’”The usual disclaimer when they want to stir
up some fear.

CHINA

Donald Rumsfeld’s
mantra of “China is a threat” leads a media campaign to
frighten the American people into opposition to everything Chinese,
perhaps in preparation to blame China for an impending economic collapse
in the U.S.

China emerging as chip design center
Chips designed, or partly designed, in
China
will account for 14.8 percent of global semiconductor sales this year,
making the country the world's third-biggest for chip design, according
to an industry report... "By 2006, China/Hong Kong/Taiwan likely
will surpass
Japan
and become the

world's
second-largest region for design-driven semiconductor sales after the
United States
,"

Sheppard
wrote in a report.

China, Russia to launch 1st joint military exercises
"The exercises are meant to "strengthen the capability of the two
armed forces in jointly striking international terrorism, extremism and separatism," the
Defense Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Xinhua News Agency...
Russian news reports said
Moscow
also had asked to hold the exercises in
China
's Muslim-dominated desert northwest, which borders
Central Asia
, a region where both governments worry about possible threats from Islamic
extremists."

Aborted takeover will also affect US
"China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) has to bear the cost of its
abandoned bid for the American oil company Unocal. But the fallout from the
bid will not only affect the Chinese side. The idea of the
United States
as a self-appointed champion of the free market has become questionable."

“A wave of criticism from the West has intensified
Russia
's and
China
's sense of strategic isolation, which is pushing them toward rapprochement,
a Canadian military expert on
East Asia
told a popular Russian daily Thursday.”

“China
is also drafting a new anti-terror law, which is due to be released
later this year.”A major, overlooked side-effect of the
US
’s arrogant belligerence is that it provides a precedent, a license for
other powers to do the same.The
US
truly leads by example, making the world more dangerous.

”China
on Thursday accused a high-profile dissident exiled to the United States
of plotting to sabotage upcoming celebrations marking the 50th anniversary
of the setting up the northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang.”

The following articles
show clearly that the
U.S.
is on a path to major economic disaster.Rising
energy prices, a huge trade imbalance, mind-boggling public and private
debt, declining personal income, outsourcing of jobs, non-creation of
significant new jobs, continuing globalization, and increasing inflation
conspire to create havoc in the near future.And
the bottom-line message from government and Wall Street is that everything
in the financial world is rosy.

“But
even the bill's sponsors acknowledged the legislation will have little,
if any impact, on today's energy prices or less dependence on oil imports…The measure funnels billions of dollars
to energy companies, including tax breaks and loan guarantees for new
nuclear power plants, clean coal technology and wind energy…It really gives a short shrift to conservation and it still
continues to subsidize the well-established oil and gas industries
that really don't need subsidizing especially when (crude) oil is $60
a barrel…”

“… a
war game called ‘Oil Shockwave.’ The participants, including
many former Republican administration members, spent several days running
through various scenarios of disrupted oil supply. Even with small-scale
trouble, the exercises quickly spun out of control. ‘The American
people,’ concluded former CIA Director Robert M. Gates, ‘are
going to pay a terrible price for not having an energy strategy.’"

Is the “Peak
Oil crisis” manufactured to raise profits for corporations?To spread fear?To justify invasion of oil-producing countries?“Our new, field-by-field analysis of production capacity,
led by my colleagues Peter Jackson and Robert Esser, is quite at
odds with the current view and leads to a strikingly different conclusion: There will be a large, unprecedented buildup of oil supply in
the next few years. Between 2004 and 2010, capacity to produce
oil (not actual production) could grow by 16 million barrels a day
- from 85 million barrels per day to 101 million barrels a day -
a 20 percent increase. Such growth over the next few years would
relieve the current pressure on supply and demand…I
wouldn't mind this oil-shortage scam so much if it was the first
time they've tried it, but they keep pulling it again and again and
we keep falling for it.”

“Homeowners took $59 billion in cash out of their houses in the
second quarter, double the amount in the 2004 quarter and 16 times
the average rate of the mid-1990s…Such
thriftiness has gone out of fashion. What was once considered undesirable
- taking on large debt - is now seen as smart.And
what used to be smart - becoming debt-free - is described as imprudent.”

”…as a society America spends $1.9 billion
more a day on imported clothes and cars and gadgets than the entire
rest of the world spends on its goods and services…A chorus of economists, government
officials and elected leaders both conservative and liberal is warning
that
America
's nonstop borrowing has put the nation on the road to a major fiscal
disaster…”

“This
is the way the bubble ends: not with a pop, but with a hiss.Housing prices move much more slowly
than stock prices. There are no Black Mondays, when prices fall 23
percent in a day. In fact, prices often keep rising for a while even
after a housing boom goes bust….”

“It's strange that Alan Greenspan
hasn't been blamed for the housing bubble. After all, he set the "easy
money" policies that put the whole thing in motion and he's the
one who should be held responsible when it goes up in smoke.Let me explain….Regrettably,
this Greenspan-generated pyramid scheme is headed for the dumpster.
The fundamentals for securing a loan have all been abandoned; putting
traditionally unqualified applicants in a position to buy a home. 42%
of all new home buyers cannot even come up with a few thousand dollars
for a down payment. Equally disturbing is the fact that ‘nearly
one third of all new mortgages this year call for interest-only payments
(in
California
, it's almost half)’ (NY Times)… Greenspan
has worked exclusively to serve the interests of American elites. He
has helped shape the policies on taxation, minimum wage and Social
Security that have enriched the wealthy and battered the middle class.”

”Overall, the nation's poverty
rate rose to 12.7 percent of the population last year. Of the 37
million living below the poverty level, close to a third were children. … The median household income, meanwhile, stood at $44,389, unchanged
from 2003.”

"’Because the market has not dropped
sharply, it will not drop sharply.’ If there is one thought
that will cost investors billions in the near future, it is this
one…With the millions of marketing dollars
spent on teaching advisors how to help their clients "feel comfortable," is
it any wonder that so many investors and advisors, surrounded by
the emotional comfort of the herd and blinded by what we want to
see, would ignore all the warning signs of a Noah effect until after
the event costs them dearly.”

Implications of Chinese Currency Revaluation
“The effect of this will be that the Bank of China will now need to maintain
in its reserves far fewer U.S. dollars -- perhaps only 1/5th as many U.S. dollars
as it did before. It also means that the Bank of China will be purchasing fewer
U.S. Treasury securities in the future. It should be noted that the Bank of
China has been the largest purchaser of U.S. Treasury securities in the last
5 years and is now, indeed, the largest holder of U.S. Treasury securities.
China
will no longer be in the dollar buying business…
China
's decision to change the nature of its currency peg means that it will
no longer be in the dollar buying business, or by extension, the U.S.
Treasury buying business. That means that
America
will be losing its biggest benefactor... The implications for
America
are enormous. Far from being the panacea that American politicians proclaim,
China
's decision to alter its peg could be the pin that finally pricks
America
's bubble economy.”

“The Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) decision to delink exclusively
from the US Dollar, and the most recent profit and personal income
numbers have gone unexamined and largely unpriced…Several
recent polls reveal a growing hostility toward the
US
and this seems to be beginning to affect the perception of our businesses.”

Doug Wakefield on the U.S. economy
“…In June of 1999, total mortgages in the
USA
stood at $6,021 billion. At the end of March 2005, the number is $10,774.
This is a 79% increase. Keep in mind our incomes have only risen 34%
while our credit card bill has grown by 58%. So, what have we, as a nation,
done?”

“The
American suburban juggernaut can be described succinctly as the greatest
misallocation of resources in the history of the world. The mortgages,
bonds, real estate investment trusts and derivative financial instruments
associated with this tragic enterprise must make the judicious goggle
with wonder and nausea.”

How the West Was Lost“CAFTA
and the Disassembling of
America
... CAFTA comes twelve years after NAFTA, about which every dire prediction
-- job losses, erosion of the manufacturing base, mounting trade imbalances
-- has been borne out in spades. Against this background the Senate
voted 54-45 for the bill a few days back, and the House has followed
with 217-215.”

US energy bill funnels billion to oil, utility corporations
“The resulting legislation is set to provide as much as $14.5 billion
in tax breaks over the next 10 years to corporations that are already immensely
profitable. At the same time, the bill will relax environmental regulations,
thereby permitting greater industrial pollution with all of the harmful consequences
for public health.”

“Irresponsible
lending is partly to blame for the surge in bankruptcies
The number of individual insolvencies in
England
and
Wales
soared by an annual 36.8% in the second quarter, official figures show.”

“…207,000
jobs were created in July… Of the new jobs, 26,000 (about 13%)
are tax-supported government jobs. That leaves 181,000 private sector
jobs. Of these private sector jobs, 177,000, or 98%, are in the domestic
service sector…Not a single one
of these jobs produces a tradable good or service that can be exported
or serve as an import substitute to help reduce the massive and growing
US trade deficit…What is the point of higher education
when the job opportunities in the economy do not require it?”

“Summary:The
U.S.
government is manipulating all major
U.S.
financial markets - stocks, treasuries, currencies. This article
shows how it is possible and how it is done, why it is done, who specifically
is doing it, when they do it, and where they get the money to do it.”

“If
You Supported the War, Pay For It…It's
not my duty to suffer for this pointless war. I've been against it
all along, and you can stick your victory garden where the desert sun
can't penetrate…Bush and Cheney ignored
our concerns.”

“…some workers describe the oppressive conditions under which they
are forced to work, including heat, long hours and unpaid, forced
overtime…Plant
workers also describe how visiting businessmen are given show tours
at Hung Hing where everything is cast as rosy.”

“One is The Great Influenza: The Epic Story Of The Deadliest
Plague In History. It tells the story
of the virus that killed more than 50 million people worldwide in
1918 and argues that the
US
government ignored the crisis and created conditions that allowed it
to thrive.”

”A recent survey by United Press found that autism
is virtually unknown among Pennsylvania's large Amish populations --
a strong indication that vaccines are indeed a principal culprit
of the epidemic. Despite the repeated urgings of
independent scientists and the families of autistic children, the federal
agencies involved have refused to commission such a study and have
closed federal vaccine files in order to derail the creation of
those studies by outside scientists.”

“It
is an established fact that non ionizing microwave radiation, especially
Extra Low Frequency ELF microwaves can induce sudden and dramatic changes
in human psychological states, alter sleep patterns, cause headaches,
memory loss and physiological changes. These ELF microwaves are invisible
and virtually undetectable. Their effects are not widely known and
the equipment to prove they are being used is not generally available….”

“The
alleged attackers told officers they had recently seen the DVD
"Bumfights" and wanted to do some "bum bashing" of their
own, police Officer Jason Lee said.”How many times
have you heard that TV and movies don’t influence behavior.